Last week I was overwhelmed. It was brought on by something that would have been completely insignificant to most people, but it led me to a place of exhaustion and several days of rumination, weeping ...

I was always a big, strong kid, but not a tough one. That was partly because my well-meaning father, who was a pacifist, essentially told me to turn the other cheek: "Just walk away," was his advice ...

As an executive coach and human-behavior professor, I’ve had an inside view into the struggles and successes of leaders at the world’s top companies. In my work, I’ve researched and studied one group ...

I’m the kind of person who absorbs the emotions of other people. If someone I know is stressed out or depressed, I feel it, too, resonating with their pain. Sad movies—heck, even sappy commercials—can ...